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The Website is Upgraded!
We all know that nobody really visited our website at frontrowcrew.com, so we let it languish. Well, the chicken and egg problem is over! The site has been majorly upgraded. It has the same visual style, but a new layout. Whether that layout is actually an improvement remains to be seen.
The parts that most people will care about are the fact that you can actually now get to the book club section. Also, the video section will appear once we start entering data. Another thing our forumites will care about is that forum threads for episodes and such are once again created automatically, just like the olden days.
Most of the changes are behind the scenes. New content will be automatically broadcast on Twitter as usual, but the tweets for old things of the day and episodes are no more. Most of the things of the day were 404, and we were starting to run low. Also, now everything that is tweeted will also be automatically posted to our Facebook page. We would post to our G+ page automatically as well, but they don't have a API. We will have to keep posting things there by hand. No matter what social network you like, we are on there.
One really interesting thing for our ultra hardcore fans is the addition of our crowd-sourced Git-powered shownotes. If you would like to write some show notes for an episode of GeekNights, just send me a pull request. When the pull request is merged the notes will appear on the site immediately as they are directly pulled from GitHub!
https://github.com/Apreche/FRC-Shownotes
Lastly, because the site has been upgraded, it is now much much easier to make changes to it. Expect new things to come soon and relatively rapidly. Some things that are possibly coming down the pipeline are a fanart section, improved FAQ and about pages, special convention section, email newsletter, tighter YouTube integration, mobile site, and more.
GeekNights has been here since 2005, and it's not going away any time soon. Let's see what other non-shit-talk awaits in 2012.
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Order looks good to me
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/16647/integration
They are working on integrating Sphinx search.
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/20309/how-to-improve-the-search-results
The web site is software written by me. The forum is written by someone else. I do not have time to modify the forum software or learn how it works. All I have time to do is add/remove plugins and such. If you want the forum changed, then go and write a plugin yourself, submit it to Vanilla, and have it approved so that I know it is trustworthy and good.
I am the author of the web site. I am simply hosting the forum. Any changes to it that require changing code come from somewhere else. Go to that someplace else to get them fixed. It's like you're asking me to add a new feature to Photoshop that doesn't exist simply because I let you use it on a computer I lent you. You have to ask Adobe for that shit.
This guy named Techparadox used to write awesome actual shownotes in this forum.
http://forum.frontrowcrew.com/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/214863#Comment_214863
Now I have added the Git-powered shownotes.
https://github.com/Apreche/FRC-Shownotes
I added one of his shownotes as a test, and it is pretty great.
http://frontrowcrew.com/geeknights/20100629/shock/
If anyone wants to dig up all the shownotes he wrote back in the day and send me a pull request, you would be a minor hero.
For example:
This is the book club section.
http://frontrowcrew.com/bookclub/1/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/
This is the relevant episode.
http://frontrowcrew.com/geeknights/20100722/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/
If you want to post shownotes on the actual book club section page, then you would put them in
bookclub/the-lies-of-locke-lamora.html
If you wanted them to appear on the episode page you would put them in
podcasts/book-club/the-lies-of-locke-lamora.html
The trick is to go to the episode page, then click on the blue graphic that indicates what kind of episode it is. You will notice that for that episode it takes you to this url.
http://frontrowcrew.com/geeknights/book-club/
That is how you know it is a book-club episode and not a Thursday episode like these.
http://frontrowcrew.com/geeknights/thursday/
That's something else. I need more little graphics like these
http://frontrowcrew.com/media/show_thumbnail/wed_small.png
and these
http://frontrowcrew.com/media/show_logos/feed_tuesday.jpg
To use on the site and as album art for things like Book Club, but also for the video shows we are going to start posting. The video section is already in place, you just can't see it yet because we haven't entered any in yet.
I'm going to write something that pulls in all the videos from the YouTube API. Maybe we'll never have to enter in any videos, and they will all automatically come in from the YouTube API. I can't depend on it too heavily, though. What if we have to switch to Vimeo or something.
You wanna know something wierd? There is a whole set of Geeknights podcasts I associate strongly with the Total War games, because I spent most of the summer of 2006 listening through the archives/the new podcast every day and playing Rome and Medieval Total War. I wasn't even aware there was a 100 podcast limit because I saved every podcast and listened to them multiple times.